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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does...

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Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop...

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Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Nelson Algren: I went out...

Nelson Algren: I went out...

I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired...

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Judith Krantz: I'm convinced that...

Judith Krantz: I'm convinced that...

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

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Richard Bach: Argue for your...

Richard Bach: Argue for your...

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...

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Salman Rushdie: A book is...

Salman Rushdie: A book is...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in...

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Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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John LeCarre: I move my...

John LeCarre: I move my...

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

[A]fter puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so...

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Bliss Carman: What are facts...

Bliss Carman: What are facts...

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation...

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Harold Macmillan: Power? It's...

Harold Macmillan: Power? It's...

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

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Bill Clinton: It wasn't my...

Bill Clinton: It wasn't my...

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

Source: About his...

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A J Balfour: Biography should be...

A J Balfour: Biography should be...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Source: Quoted in: Observer ...

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Harrison Ford: I had no...

Harrison Ford: I had no...

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I...

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